Cell companion chip gets hot demo
Being able to record 48 TV shows simultaniously is allgood and fine, but i have a hard enough time trying to find two shows worth watching to utilize my TIVO……. on top of that, the same show gets reran at least twice over the course of a year now that most series only shoot 12-14 episodes.
The Cell processor’s developers want to make sure you never miss another TV show again.
Toshiba showed off a “super companion chip,” or SCC, for the Cell that can record 48 separate MPEG 2 streams at once.
The chip, detailed at the Hot Chips conference taking place at Stanford University this week, is part of an effort by developers of the SCC and the Cell–IBM, Toshiba and Sony–to get the Cell into as many types of devices as possible.
The SCC is essentially a versatile, high-speed input-output port, according to Takayuki Mihara, an engineer with Toshiba. It receives regular and high-definition TV signals, audio and other data from set-top boxes, hard drives and similar items, and then forwards it to the processor.
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